Tutorial at Swansea Met. with Dr. Rob Newell and Prof. Andrea Liggins. Discussion about suggested work programme. Suggestion that agreement should be sought to make Thesis between 45 and 50,000 word.
Interesting discussion about square format photos and use of this blog as part of the thesis.
Time to write-up the landscape planning and localism aspects of the research.
Attachments
Web training with Tom Keating and Ben Spencer, updating Folly Wood website
Telephone conversation with MAx Comfort re. Weave Advisory Group Meeting
Updating this website
Walk from Stroud through Hawkwood and Folly Wood and back with Kel Portman,
skype with Dr. Sue Porter exploring common ground around some of the themes coming from the Gainsborough Study Day in the context of “Affective Landscapes”
Attendence at meeting on the Localism Bill and in particular on Neighbourhood Development Plans as the production of such a plan is likely to be a response to the AoU visit.
Presentation of cheque to Severn Area Rescue Association. Funds raised in lieu of commission to The Old Passage on sales from recent Waterways exhibition, curated by Walking the Land, on the initiative and effort of Kel Portman and Sally Pearce. Photo by Kel Portman.
Following earlier work on the River Severn and involvement from Kel in an earlier conference, WtL were invited to join a group of academics and artists in writing for the Journal of Arts & Communities. We planned a walk with Dr. Iain Robertson for 6th January in a flooded place to look at Resilience, Representation and Embodiment.
meeting with Ben Spencer to discuss next stages of Folly Wood, implementing links between the Canal and Museum and our PhD theses. Commonality over working with people and existentialism.